Bassett Allsorts Flyball Team

20/12/2025

Wishing all our flyball friends a Merry Christmas, and look forward to seeing you all back in the lanes in 2026!

14/06/2025

Another good idea on the 'lost dog' front..... especially for multi dog households.....

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1B4n2aULC2/

📣 Lost Dog Tip: Make a Scent Article for Your Dog! 🐾

Fresh off my Level 1 Lost Dog Tracking course, I wanted to share one of the most valuable things you can do before your dog ever goes missing.

🧠 Make a scent article!
Especially important if you have a multi-dog household, this ensures search teams have a clear, unique scent to track.

Here’s how you do it:

🛠️ You’ll need:
✅ 1 ziplock bag
✅ A pair of gloves (if possible – prevents contamination)
✅ One item for your dog’s scent (a new sock, clean medical gauze, or even a cheap fabric collar)

👃 How to prepare it:

1. Rub the item all over your dog, or have them wear it briefly.

2. Put it straight into the ziplock bag.

3. Label the bag with your dog’s name and microchip number.

4. Store in a cool, dark cupboard.

5. Set a reminder to re-scent it every 3–6 months!

💡 One small step now can make a huge difference later. Be proactive. Be prepared. 🐶💛

01/06/2025

If your dog ever goes missing..... this video is worth a watch, lots of good tips

11/02/2025

**FOUND -- SADLY DECEASED**

Breaking news and court stories from Wiltshire 999s

01/10/2024

Today celebrates National Black Dog Day. The event is to encourage the adoption of black dogs, who generally get over looked......
Here are a few of our teams black dogs (and with a little tan!)

14/08/2024

Last weekend was the highlight of our competing year - The BFA Outdoor Champs. For the first time ever, we entered 2 foundation teams, as well as 2 Open teams.

Thursday was Speed Trials day for Torpedoes & Allsorts. Both teams ran well, and posted times through out their races. BT were very consistent, and recorded 18.16 which put them in Div 12. Allsorts were short on one dog, so only had 4 to race all weekend. They started the day posting their fastest time this year 21.90, which put them in Div 27.

Fun Friday had our 2 foundation teams running. Jelly Tots were a team of 3, all dogs being able to do the box. They only dropped one clean leg, giving them a 97% win and 1st place in their div. Our second team, Jelly Babies, had 4 dogs that have only raced in foundation a couple of times this year, and had new handlers to the sport. They too, only dropped one leg, giving them a 97.7% win and a 1st place in their division.

Saturday we had both Open teams racing. BT kept up their consistent (even if they made hard work of the racing at times!) times, and won all 5 of their races giving them 1st place in Div 12, best time 18.06. Allsorts struggled to get near their ST seed time, but they were gifted a win by a team breaking out, and they won 2 other races, giving them 4th place over all.

And finally we also won the fancy dress on Friday night (along with Lightning), dressed as Super Mario characters. We won a lovely hamper.

Sunday was an unusual day off for us, apart from Ring Party duties. But a few members did manage to pack up and get home, while others decided to chill out for the last night!!

The venue turned out to be lovely, with some great off-site walking for the non competing dogs.

Thanks must go to the BFA committee and all their Champs helpers. And to our judges & RP people!

16/07/2024

Photos from the very talented Becky taken at Hullavington this weekend are starting to go up on her website. They can be accessed at https://rebeccareedphotography1.shootproof.com/gallery/21881717/
Please don’t forget to abide by all copyright regulations & that the digital images are for personal use only. Any photos shared on social media must be credited to Rebecca Reed Photography

As a reminder, the free divisional winners photos are of the team as a whole, the same photo for all team members. If you had an individual shot taken with you and your dog then these will need to be purchased separately.

The free photo as part of the judges gifts is either of you & your dog in the lanes or you & your dog in a portrait shot. We tried to grab hold of all judges over the weekend & give you a chance to decide your preferred option & update Becky. Hopefully everyone gets what they wanted.

15/07/2024

Much awaited Taskmaster video's..... Task 5......
In your teams, nominate up to 5 people to perform a dance to a phone ring tone. As a team you have 10 mins to help your members learn a dance, and they will then have 1 chance to perform the routine. Best performance wins

15/07/2024

Crumbs! I don’t know where to start!! Long post alert!!
I’m not sure where to start!!

What a wonderful weekend we had hosting our last show. Although the club was formed 30 years ago, we haven’t hosted every year. In the early days we used to borrow the equipment from Anton (Jets) and then Penny (Barkshire), before starting to invest in our own equipment, so we have been doing shows for about 20-25years with the odd gap (covid being one!)

Hugest Thank you’s have to go to Sue & Damian, for the tremendous amount of work they put in behind the scenes, both before, during and after our shows. And to Sue S for being TO and sorting all the paperwork. Without these 3 people, I would have given up hosting long ago!!!

Then onto the team, who help set up and share all the ring duties over the weekend, so we all have breaks away from the ring. Again without this bunch of fabulous flyball family (including Hilary & Beth), it just wouldn’t be possible to host shows.

Thanks to all who have supported our shows over the many years …

To our various Lights custodians (form the early days Dave Long, to Pete Nicholson to Ivan & Helene and anyone else I’ve missed inbetween!!!)

All the MO’s who get up early to measure our dogs

To our wonderful judges (PJ’s, QJ’s & HJ’s) who give up their time. But in particular to Wayne & Penny who have been our HJ’s at least one day at virtually (if not all) our shows we have put on.
And last but not least all the BFA members who have come along to support us!

This last weekend we have had perfect racing weather, even through to presentation (last year won’t be forgotten!) and evening entertainment! We had a lot of racing to get through on Saturday, and on Sunday there was a bit of pressure to hurry through racing, as there were a ‘few’ people to wanted a quick get away for a certain big football game!!!! And we managed it!!! So thank you everyone!!

Evening entertainment was a little different – we used the teams as ‘Guinea Pigs’ for a first & last attempt at Team Taskmaster. We have never done anything like this, so was a little unsure how it was going to pan out, but I think & hope everyone enjoyed their evening!!

We had some great stories to go with the Worst Item Received Pre show task….. Then onto Task 1 – as a team how many words as you could make out of the letters F L Y B A L L S H O W in 3 minutes (I was amazed at how well everyone did at that!!). Task 2 We had one person from each team come out to be blindfolded, they then had to stand up closest to 55 secs. Everyone remained silent….. until the Taskmaster started to put them off! Again, the concentration on faces was great! Task 3 involved 5 team members to take it in turn to put a coin on their head and drop it into a glass Below waist level…… fastest team back to their seats…… any dropped coins, they went to the back of the queue!! Task 4 involved a pair of team mates to hold hands. Then one held a stack of cups, while the other tried to remove the lowest cup to the top of the pile until the coloured mug was at the top. There was some amazingly fast teams, and some not so good!!

And onto task 5 – my favourite…… each team was given 10 mins to make up a dance to their phone ring tone (ok, some ring tones were a little suspect, but the dances were good!) Video’s to follow!
It was a great evening, and I hope everyone enjoyed themselves.
Odyssey were the winners, and the losers, taking home all the ‘worst items’ were one of our own Bassett teams!

As a team, Bassett Allsorts gained a 5th place in Div 6. Torpedoes gained a 3rd in Div 3, and our foundation team managed a whopping 98% success rate, and came first in their division. Well done all!!

I must thank my team for the most gorgeous hamper and the most awful photo card!! They know me well, it was full of Hawkstone cider, marmite goodies, and chillie chocolate, all to go along with some perfect reading in the form of Diddley Squat books!

My last thanks must go to Piccadilly Parties for allowing us the use of the venue.

To Rebecca Reed Photography for attending both days and putting in a huge amount of work, getting us photos for our judges presents, as well as divisional winners, and any request on the day!

To Norton Rosettes Shop for the most fab rosettes (Blue & Yellow team colours, and the 3rd colour to represent Pearl Anniversary), for all placed dogs & box loaders

And to The Scran Van for allowing us to use vouchers to supply our judges with a meal and our ring parties with drinks.

Thanks to the BFA for 30 years of fun!

It sounds like a farewell, but far from it!! We look forward to seeing everyone in the lanes at the Champs!!

28/05/2024

Our show schedule was released this evening. This will be celebrating our 30th flyball year, but we have also come to the decision that it will also be our last year that we host a show.
So we will be looking to sell all our show equipment (with the exception of the jumps!) which will be ready to take away immediately after the show if anyone is interested in any of it.......

08/03/2024

Sorry to say, we are not currently taking on new members, but please drop us an email via the website, or message us to be added to the waiting list.